the spanish song

[Meg Larson]

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> From: Vaska <vaska at geocities.com>
> To: Pynchon List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: the spanish song
> Date: Wednesday, July 09, 1997 11:43 AM
> 
> Chris about her misspent youth: 
> >     Now listen, be gentle with me:  I'm a loathsome 36, 
> >     and neither a boomer nor an x-er be.  Despised by all, ya got me? 
My 
> >     musical heritage?  Disco.  OK?  
> >I think I've alluded to the fact that I used to work in record (vinyl,
usually black but sometimes colored--Rush's _Hemispheres_ was red--Canadian
pressing only--and ELO had a blue disc--_Out of the Blue_, as it happens)
store, and my boss used to cringe when DJ's would come in asking me for the
latest Donna Summer/Chic/Rick James 12" single--I'd shake my head and
politely say: "I don't do disco."  Lost a ton of sales that way, he did.
     
> >     Do your worst, Sherwood, it's just another brick in the wall.
> >
> At least there was still the old Floyd around to see us through the
dreadful
> seventies....  Small mercies or what.  So quit moaning, Chris: we had it
> good, considering...
>Well, now, the 70s weren't all that dreadful; a lot of good music came out
of the era:  Led Zep, the Heads, B-52's, the Pork Dukes, the Tubes, Ronnie
Montrose, Rush, Pink Floyd, and a bunch more I'm forgetting at the moment. 
And let us not forget my personal faves, Steely Dan.  

I tell my 12-year-old son that children of the 70s smoked dope to escape
disco's evil influence.

When a I told a friend that Elvis had died, he looked at me with a straight
face and said:  The King is Dead--Long Live Led Zeppelin.

Now if we could just get rid of Bob Seger . . .

At least as old as Chris, who has my sympathies, 
Meg